Vested in the Heads of Families Genesis 18:19

Exercised In

Training, &c their servants for war Genesis 14:14

Vindicating their wrongs Genesis 14:12, 15, 16

Forming treaties and alliances Genesis 14:13, 21:22-32, 26:28-33

Acting as priests Genesis 8:20, 12:7, 8, 35:1-7, Job 1:5

Acting as judges Genesis 38:24

Arbitrarily disinheriting and putting away servants and children Genesis 21:14, 1 Chronicles 5:1

Blessing and cursing their children Genesis 9:25, 26, 27:28, 29, 49:1-33

The authority of heads of families for, acknowledged Genesis 23:6